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Gnome Stew won the silver ENnie Award for Best Blog in 2011 and 2010 -- thank you for your support! Online since 2008, we've published 1,110 articles packed with GMing tips and advice, as well as two books for GMs. Our top 30 articles make a great starting point for new readers.

"I check Gnome Stew every day." -- Monte Cook
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Jan 4, 2011 by 8

Review: From Here To There, 9 Adventures For The Road

So imagine this situation, it is about 1 day until game time and your encounter with the BBEG or a very important plot piece or fight is slated to happen in the next game. Unfortunately, the characters aren't quite ready to take it on or the player who has backstory hooks isn't going to be there. Darnit, what do you do? The obvious answer is to stall ...
Dec 1, 2010 by 2

What’s Up With DEM Games

Earlier this year, I updated you about the work that Dias Ex Machina games was doing with its Techno-Fantasy GSL game Amethyst:Foundations (here and here, oh and here), and it’s Modern-SciFi game NeuroSpasta. I had a chance to catch up with Chris Dias, and find out what is going on over at DEM, and to talk about GMing in general. So when we last ran an article about DEM ...
Jan 29, 2010 by 3

“O” is For Old School: Review of The Dungeon Alphabet

Get your bull's-eye lantern, a 10 ft pole, and some spikes, because we are taking a journey into the dungeons of yesteryear. For those of you who did not battle the  Slavers, wander the Borderlands, defeat the Giants, and stood in the Demonweb Pits, you are in luck. Goodman Games provides you an old school Sherpa, in the way of The Dungeon Alphabet. Disclaimer—Goodman games was kind enough to ...
Feb 27, 2009 by 13

D&D Burgoo (4.0): Mastering Goodman’s Dungeons

Friends of the Stew, Ed Healy and Rone Barton, co-hosts over at the gaming podcast Atomic Array, are going to put the goodly folks of Goodman Games beneath the bright strobe lights of inquiry — or at least subject them to one of Rone’s description-defying rants. Anyway, the subject at hand is Goodman’s latest game line — Master Dungeons — Fourth Edition adventure modules designed specifically for experienced GMs.  ...

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